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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 30/03/2007 13:04:22

duncanthemonkey
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Great Simulator, but i'm still stuck.

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14

is my best. What am i missing?
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 30/03/2007 13:20:16

martynpie
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Try to think of a short route into the pit, and then try to manufacture a way of getting your blue marble to the start point of that route.
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#196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 07/04/2007 11:06:50

g4fmw
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Many thanks to Twixwolf and the simulator one black and 5 silvers to go
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 12/04/2007 16:26:24

linkn
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woohoo got it in 87 random moves, now i just gotta stop messing with the simulator, i love it by the way, awesome!

EDIT:finally got it!!
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 23/04/2007 18:56:14

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Really struggling with this card. Any more help?
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 08/05/2007 23:15:24

hobyrne
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I very much did not like this card. I think the reason is the same reason many people are struggling. Spoilered anyway.

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Marbles are ROUND. If one marble is held immobile and another is heading straight for it, the other will roll around the first to the left or to the right (depending on the precise positions of the centres of the marbles, and/or which way your hand twitches or the breeze blows on each particular play of the game).



In short:

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YOU CANNOT STACK MARBLES.



Come on!!! Do I really have to say that?!
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#196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 10/05/2007 17:36:25

Caprakan
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I think you'll find that's an overcomplication. If two marbles meet in adjoining squares on the grid, they will stay in the same position until something else gets in the way of one of them.
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#196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 30/05/2007 12:49:02

nicolav
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Hi twixwolf. Thanks for a fabulous simulator. Worked really well.

Nicola
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#196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 15/07/2007 16:27:44

CleoSelene
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This obviously isn't the sort of puzzle my brain can 'see' - I figured out from the start that the key to the solution would be in working backwards, in a sense, but I can't even see a route into the pit!! The simulator is great but I'm still just sliding marbles all over and getti9ng nowhere near the Pit. I'm so angry over this card! Grrr!
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 21/08/2007 12:03:18

Draco-Turner
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Hey Twixwolf this helped a bundle as i think everyone so far has said.

first solve got me 14 moves. looked a bit more and got 13.

found the simulator and got the solve straight off just needed a practical go at it!

thanks again!
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 26/05/2008 20:56:17

DarkAngelDaisuke
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Ok i got this puzzle in 7 moves.
re-checked and checked.
if anyone disagrees please tell me how.

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my moves were

E S W N E S W




so. i think thats the least amount of moves.

(Edited by Rotek, spoilered moves.)
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Re: #196 - Marble Loss (black suits) 26/05/2008 23:07:41

Eugenes Lair
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DarkAngelDaisuke wrote:

Ok i got this puzzle in 7 moves.
re-checked and checked.
if anyone disagrees please tell me how.

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my moves were

E S W N E S W




so. i think thats the least amount of moves.

(Edited by Rotek, spoilered moves.)

Sorry, but that "solution" doesn't work. After the 7th move, the marble is close to the top-left corner.
Have you tried using Twixwolf's simulator?
I think you'll find that you need to use a different approach and slightly more moves...
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